New Android app illuminates Power Consumption

A new application for the Android powered smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. The application is called PowerTutor and it was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan. PowerTutor shows in real time how four different phone components use power: the screen, the network interface, the processor, and the global positioning system receiver. Battery-powered cell phones serve as hand-held computers and more these days. We run power-hungry applications while we depend on …